Resident parking FAQs

The council or the police can temporarily suspend the whole or part of a parking place for certain reasons. Signs will be put up when a parking place is suspended. If on special occasions (e.g. a wedding or a funeral) you need additional parking space near to your house, you should apply to Parking Services for the parking place to be suspended. Full details should be supplied with your application and your application should be made as early as possible. Residents can't park in a suspended parking place unless they have the permission of the council or police.

If your permit is lost or stolen you'll need to reapply for a permit and produce your documentation again. If your permit becomes faded or defaced, please hand it in to Parking Services for a replacement.

You should apply for a permit for your new vehicle and hand in your old permit. The old permit can't be used on your new vehicle. Please make sure that your permit doesn't fall into the hands of a non-resident if you sell your vehicle.

If you display a valid permit on the windscreen of your vehicle, you'll be entitled to park in the residents parking scheme area during its hours of operation. There should be sufficient space for all residents, however holding a permit doesn't guarantee that a particular space will be available for you to use.

A resident's parking permit doesn't enable a vehicle to be parked on yellow line waiting/loading restrictions, allow free parking at any pay and display area or business parking area, or unlimited time in any loading bays which may be located within the residents parking scheme area.

In addition to residents' vehicles, the following vehicles can also be parked in resident parking places:

Vehicles displaying a visitor/business or all zone permit

Police, fire brigade, ambulance and other local authority vehicles

Doctor's and nurse's vehicles displaying an 'on call' sign

Removal vans

Vehicles which are being used to deliver or collect goods from properties next to the parking place (these vehicles can only wait for 20 minutes)

Vehicles which are picking up or setting down passengers

Certain other vehicles in special circumstances

Vehicles parking in Zones P and U for less than 45 minutes (permit required after 45 minutes)

If any other vehicles are parked in the residents' parking spaces, the driver/owner of the vehicle will be liable to a Penalty Charge Notice.